Rite of Spring

Neighbors share joys, sorrows of birthing season

By Meaghan Downs

Wednesday, April 3, 2013 at 10:01 am

The babies have arrived on Wildcat Road.
Tic and Tac, two fuzzy baby doll Southdown lambs only three days old, wobble after a sheared ewe in the afternoon sun.
Betsy DeKoster, the owner of the Lawrenceburg Bluegrass Babydoll sheep farm, explains that the third lamb triplet, Toe, didn’t make it.
She points at a lamb named Twister, who survived a complicated birth, she said, and was safely delivered despite the lamb’s head being pulled backwards.

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